Fish-hook.



l PATENTED SEPT. 25, 1906.

O. HALLSTROM.

FISH HOOK.

- APPLICATION FILED APR.5, 1905.

.introduced between them.

OSCAR HALLsTaon, or CHICAGO, iLLiNois;

FISH-HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented sepa 25, 1906.

Application and Aprilaieoa serial 110.253.9471

To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR HALLsTRoM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fish-Hooks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The purpose of this invention is to provid an improved form of fish-hook adapted to hold the bait in a more advantageous manner than heretofore and to become engaged with the mouth or throat of the fish more securely than the forms of fish-hook heretofore employed.

It consists of the features of construction set out in the claims.

Inthe drawings, Figure lis a perspective view of one form of my improved fish-hook. Fig. 2 is a bottom lan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a somewhat modified form. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a second modification. Fig. 5 is a front elevation showing a modification of the weedguard, which may be applied to any of the forms shown inthe preceding figures. Fig. 6 is a view similar tofFig. 5, showing afurther modification of the weed-guard, which is also applicable to any of the forms of hook shown.

My improved fish-hooks comprise in every form twoy terminals l and 2, each of which has" a single barb a, said terminals being formed on two separate pieces of wire, which are secured together at the shank of the hook, but which are unattached throughout the entire hook portion and for a distance back therefrom along the shank, vso that they are adapted to be sprung apart. The two terminals commence to diverge at the forward part of the hook and stand spread. atan angle to each other from thirty to forty-five degrees. The intention of this construction, beside causing the .hook to be morel securely held in the mouth orthroat of the fish, is to adapt the hook to hold the bait by the spring grip of the two parts, the bait being entered between the ldiv'ei ging terminals and drawn down between the wires and held by their .grasp upon it at the oints where-they are separated by the thic ess of the bait thus For accommodating larger bait, and particularly for such bait as small frogs or other live bait which should be left free to move so as to`attract the fish, one or both of the wires may be bent outward at the b'ottom ofthe hook, as shown at b`, forming-an eye B between the two wires. In Fig. 3 I have shown one of the wires thus deflected, and in Figs. l and 2 both wires are shown deflected, making the eye B larger than in the other form. I combine with this ldouble-terminal hook a weedard which may be in any one of the severa dforms illustrated. In the form shown in Fig. l the guard for each of the terminals consists of a spring-wire C, which is secured at the upper` end 'of the shank and extends down forward to a point abovev and somewhat inward and forward of the extremity of the terminal, and from that point it is bent outward-that is, away from the lane which would bisect the stern and also the angle between the diverg- "ing terminals-and at the end is bent downward for a short distance outside the hook- -terminaL The guard in lthis form is familiar as applied to a hook having a single terminal.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a somewhat sim lerV form of guard in'which the spring-wire is bent in a curve from its fastening at the upper end to the shank, so as to extend-downward, forward, and outward and then downward, forward, and, slightly inward and at the end a little backward, so as to terminate at a point 'very nearly overhanging `the extremity of the hook-terminal. Each of the two terminals is similarly provided with such guard.

In connection with the hook shown in Fig. Y

5 there -is illustrated a somewhat preferred form of weed-guard which'diflers from the i first form above described "in that'the springwire C2, after'extending downward and forwardly and slightly outward to a point a little above and inward from the ho oli-terminals is deflected inward, downward7 and forward, so as to extend across ab'ove the extremity of the terminals and at its endV is given a short bend forward andl downward. This form tends somewhat more Acertainly than the preceding to deflect the weed` away from the hook-terminals. A still .more preferred form IOC' of weed-guardis shown in Fig. 6, in which the lspring-wire C3 is forked at the end, the two branches c3 c3 extending to opposite sides of the hook-terminal, the angle between them overhanging said terminal and both branches being in a vertical plane a little forward I claim-- 1. A -fish-hook com rising two spring-wires IIO rigidly'connected'at t e shank or stem of the p said wiresbeing near together at the forward hook and free to be sprung apart from theA point of such connection to the extremity, suchwires being bent so as to normally stand apart at the bottom of tle bend of the hook and converging thenceto'the forward side of said bend, and thence 4diverging from their side of the bend of the hook and diverging thence upwardly to the extremities.

3. A fish-hook comprising two spring-wires Y i vsecured together at the shank of the hook, and elastically separable from thence onward tothe extremity, the two wires `being near together at the forward side of the bend of the hook and 4thence diverging upwardly to the extremities, one ofsaid wires having. a deflection outward at the bottom ofthe hook to form an. eye between the two wires'.

4. Ash-hook comprising two spring-wires secured together at the shank of the hook and elastically-separable from thence onward I to the extremity, the two wires being near together at the forward side of the bend of the` hook` and thence diverging upwardly to lthe extremities, said wires having each a bend outwardly -at the bottom of the hook constituting mated recesses, to form an eye between the two 'wires at the bottom. n

5. A fish-hook comprising two rigidly-connected wires having divergingterminals con- Y stituting ythe terminals of the hook, and Weedi :guards extending rigidly from the upper end `,of the shank overhanging the terminals respectively, and at their overhanging part extending obliquely in a plane transverse to a plane which bisects theshank and the angle etween the diverging terminals.

6. A fish-hook comprising two members rigid with each other forming two diverging hook terminals; a Weed-guard comprising twospring-wires secured at the upperfend of the shank, extending thence vforwardly and oints respectively above the the hook-terminals, and dedownward to extremitles o i'lected thence obliquely inward and down# ward, the oblique portion overhanging such terminals.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, in the presence of two witnesses, at

Chicago, Illinois, this 29th d ay ofMarch, 1905.

OSCAR HALLSTROM. In presence 3.of- -v FRE-DK. G, FISCHER, J. S. ABBOTT; 

